Makes some category fixes to this article, a biography of another British author who wrote on conservative themes. The edit itself is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 09:03, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
This edit adds a boilerplate talk page template to a biography of a British actress and comedian. The article has no obvious political overtones and the edit looks completely innocuous. Back in 2006 I think these templates were not so common, but almost all talk pages have them now. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 08:48, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Minor fmt/punctuation adjustment, fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.123.166 (talk) 17:56, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds templates similar to above. Biography subject is a novelist and drama critic, who also wrote a book about memory and the Holocaust. The edit is unproblematic. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 08:52, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Minor copyedit in article about deceased Polish journalist. Innocuous. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Biography of saxophone player, edit changes some date formats and adds wikilinks, mostly ok, some small errors, uncontentious. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:29, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Edit summary is "grammar" but it actually introduces a grammatical error ("antique's expert"), a minor slip of the sort Wikipedia editors make all the time (it's fixed shortly afterwards by another editor removing that entry completely). The dab page was plausibly of interest because it also mentions Judith Miller (journalist), a politically controversial New York Times (now Fox News) reporter who came under criticism for her coverage of the Iraq War. Her biography has more info about this. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 09:00, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Change "car crash" to "car accident", ok fine. This was the car crash/accident that Princess Diana died in (Al-Fayed was the guy she was involved with and who was also in the car). PC made other edits to this article that I haven't looked at. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 03:58, 5 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Formatting cleanup and minor info addition to an article about an apparently leftwing author. Good edit in my opinion. The info added relates to an essay by the bio subject about his becoming disenchanted with the US Communist Party. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Slightly messy diff adjusting formatting and alphabetization of list of newspapers, adding a couple new ones and a description of an existing one (Private Eye). Good edit. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 18:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Minor copyedit. PC made other edits to this article, a few of which look ok, the rest not examined. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 18:02, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Formatting fixes and an addition to article about leftwing author Upton Sinclair. The article had already mentioned that Sinclair married his 2nd wife after his 1st one left him. The addition was that the 1st wife left for another man. If this were a BLP in the current Wikipedia era we'd be going berserk about the unsourced addition of something like that, but Sinclair died in 1968 and back in 2008 Wikipedia was less jumpy. In the current (2018) version of the article, the info is given in more detail, still without a source, but a quick web search confirms it through Sinclair's 1968 NYT obituary, so I added a citation to the obit.[2]
Overall this is not a great edit but it's not something to get alarmed about taken by itself. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:22, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Add talkpage template. Article is biography of British actress who died in 1990. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:27, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Copyedit in passage about recovering "lost" episodes of this series from TV station archives. Doesn't add info but is perfectly ok edit in good subject. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Starts new article about British serial murderer involved in a lurid sex crime in 1990s but not convicted til 2008, making news so this was a current event at the time. PC was main contributor for a while (this version generally looks ok) and various others have contributed since then. Not a delightful choice of subject matter but the editing looks generally well done. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 18:15, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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[[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 280686445 by [[Special:Contributions/88.104.231.52|88.104.231.52]] ([[User talk:88.104.231.52|talk]]) v
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reverts random addition "Owns a villa in Italy", might have been worth trying to chase down, but ok. This does appear to be sourceable and maybe ok for the article. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Copyedits section about 1941 movie The Great Lie, looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 18:27, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Appears to be a content-neutral swap of the order of two passages in this biography of a Japanese film director, who died in Feb. 2008. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:31, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Mostly good stylistic copyedit of article about a kids' TV show. Removes the sentence "Nevertheless, the show and its presenter are fondly remembered by many and it enjoys cult status." I'm not keen on this type of removal because of how parts of Wikipedia's bureaucracy obsessively performs them, but we're not in controversial territory here. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:37, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds "see also" wikilinks to other films on similar theme. Good edit. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:41, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Changes a now-dab intlink to a pipelink with the right target. Perfectly fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:42, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Copyedit/fmt, nothing to write home about. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 03:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Content-neutral copy edit of author/playwright article, looks fine. Skipped this edit earlier by accident, probably due to date reordering. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Add reflist template, article is about deceased Labour Party politician (1919-1958).
Copyedit/cleanup of biography of English philosopher who died in 1953. Mostly improves the article, removes a half-sentence that the article didn't really need, so is at worst unproblematic. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:56, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Content-neutral formatting change in some lists, ok. Article is about a living British actress, born 1962. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 03:17, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Minor formatting edit, subject is a newspaper editor and conservative(?) political advisor/former candidate in Australia. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:36, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Starts a new article about a 1971 Fassbinder film. Looks good. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:37, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Slight content-neutral refactor of article about 1960s BBC drama series. Looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:39, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Content-neutral good copyedit. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 02:58, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds an intlink to bio of a person named in the article. I don't understand the "hndis" edit summary but the edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 03:02, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds internal links to article about British dramatist. Might be something going on with the article's overall history (it's just a stub now), but not going to worry. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:57, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds navigation template linking other articles about this British comedy writing team. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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the programme still exists, so present tense in line with the usual WP practice
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Copyedit looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 03:08, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Minor copyedit, looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:42, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Undid revision 425227207 by [[Special:Contributions/Wiki9wookie9|Wiki9wookie9]] ([[User talk:Wiki9wookie9|talk]]) twitter is not RS
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This edit has been revdelled. Will try to look at the surrounding edits later, to see if it's evident what happened. Yes Twitter is generally not RS but I consider almost all reverts to be potential avenues of bias. The idea of checking these edits is to figure out whether they reflect good judgment, not just whether they are permitted by policy. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:48, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Added: the revdelled material was added by another editor a few revisions earlier, here. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:52, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Edit tries to fix a typo in the article but doesn't quite fix it, no big deal. Article itself is about a judge imprisoned during the regime of leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, so PC's other edits to this article might want examination. Here PC fixes a reference to a letter written by Noam Chomsky but I haven't looked at any of the other edits. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Copyedit to article about Italian film actress active in 1960s. Looks ok to me other than a typo ("agin" instead of "again") that PC fixed a few edits later. Previous edit to same article by PC[3] is outside scope of this study, but I like that he checked sources before removing material. The stuff removed wasn't of much interest in the article anyway. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 03:23, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
fmt/ce of article about British actress born 1923. Looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:53, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
ce/add navigation template+category in biography of a BBC TV producer. Looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:56, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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as 12 out of the 13 episodes are listed as remaining (at lostshows.com), present tense is appropriate
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Changes past to present tense for a TV series since its episodes still survive. Gramatically questionable (I'd say I Love Lucy was a 1950's TV series, not is one) but not politically contentious or anything like that. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 04:08, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
ce removing a spurious newline. Slightly more substantial article rearrangement 1 edit earlier[4] but that one looks content neutral too. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:00, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Expands and adds a citation about The Daily Show (US news/comedy show that I think was considered leftwing) being prohibited from showing coverage of the UK parliament. Good edit. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:05, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adjusts internal link about a movie filmed in this hotel. Looks fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Copyedit/fmt and expands a mention of a historical person to say who the person is. Good edit. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:08, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Tweaks formatting of page numbers in article about deceased (1896-1984) British actor and playwright. Formatting is still a little strange but at worst this is uncontentious. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:10, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Reorders categories in this article about a British historian who wrote several popular historical works. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:11, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
This edit is an innocuous c/e, but article is about a living Scottish journalist who has worked in some political areas, that might warrant a closer look. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds link to journalist's Twitter page. I'm fine with that per se, though it's not completely usual for Wikipedia to include Twitter links. Article subject was an adviser to Cherie Blair (wife of centrist(?) British politician Tony Blair) so this is tangentially political. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Fixes date of a TV series the person was in. I didn't check the correctness of the fix but it looks fine, and is way outside of PC's disputed editing areas, so ok. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:30, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
ce and cat reordering of article about journalist and Green Party politician. Edit looks fine, didn't check for any surrounding ones. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:31, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
minor clarity improvement in article about 1947 Irish movie. I don't know the edit summary abbreviation "gr." but the edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
category formatting adjustments in a draft article about a British contemporary historian. The draft looks fine at first glance. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:35, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Fixes description of interview date from late 80's to mid 80's. Cite is to WaPo not NYT but I didn't check its contents. Good gnome-ish edit afaict. Article subject is a movie actress born 1921. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:38, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Removes middle name of actor but actor seems to actually use that middle name, so maybe this edit is an error. Not contentious though, no big deal either way. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:48, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Undid revision 391927108 by [[Special:Contributions/Anthony Appleyard|Anthony Appleyard]] ([[User talk:Anthony Appleyard|talk]]) passage now in the article on the forgotten and lost (bar 1 ep) series
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Reverts an addition by Anthony Appleyard about Whitehouse getting "indecent" material censored from a TV show, after receiving a leaked script. Edit summary says it's in "forgotten and lost" article that doesn't seem to exist. The info is partly in Swizzlewick, the show that was censored.
I think this is a questionable edit since it removes material relevant to the subject's biographical profile, particularly describing what could be seen as excessive zeal on the part of a social conservative. Article mentions that Swizzlewick featured a character that was a parody of Whitehouse (not clear whether the censorship incident was before or after) so leaving out the incident removes some context. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 06:08, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Adds citation to a book that contained the original publication of an article reprinted in the Financial Times. "Faber" in the edit summary refers to the name of the book publisher, given as "Faber and Faber" in an earlier revision. Mary Whitehouse (1910-2001) was a conservative social activist who sought to get excessive sex, violence etc. off of BBC television, and was seen as "censurious" and "homophobic". The edit itself is fine, don't know about surrounding ones. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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/* Artists, cartoonists, designers, illustrators */ obituaries are inconsistent about the spelling
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Add alternate spelling of person's name (confectioner Brian Sollitt) on a todo list. Ok. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 06:11, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
This edit credits a candy brand with an "unwelcome endorsement" from Saddam Hussein, based on a news report that Saddam offered candy of that brand to a visitor (the visitor was George Galloway, about which more in a moment). The news report did mention Saddam offering the candy but didn't describe it as an endorsement, welcome or otherwise, so that description is what Wikipedia calls SYNTH. SYNTH basically means an editor supplying their own interpretation to facts reported in a source, and it's a bad offense when used to aggressively push a viewpoint. This particular example about the "endorsement" is not terribly aggressive in its own right, so I'll put it in the "venial sin" category.
A little more worrisome is the idea of WP:COATRACK, which means an editor pushing a topic by sticking everything they can find to that topic, even when its relevance is tenuous. So a WP:ABF reading of this edit is that the editor hates George Galloway and inserts a reference in an unrelated article to Galloway chumming around with evilbadguy(tm) Saddam Hussein as yet another way to make Galloway look bad because the opportunity arose.
I'll take an in-between reading: the edit supports a picture of an editor obsessively reading everything he can about Galloway, coming across a semi-interesting factoid about the candy brand in the course of that reading, and adding the factoid to the candy article along with a shaky interpretation, sourced to an article that paints Galloway a certain way. So this edit goes in the minus pool but it could be a heck of a lot worse. 173.228.123.166 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:42, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
A good edit, really does improve sourcing and makes description more precise. Article subject is a deceased British filmmaker (1920-2005). 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:44, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Formatting fixes, looks fine. Article subject is a deceased food writer (1957-1989). 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:47, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Fixes title of source article in citation to that article, a valid error fix. No obvious overtones in article content. Edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:49, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Formatting fixes, article subject is British playwright, born 1977. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:50, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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if IMDb is correct, only one O'Mara's "Brothers" appearances was actually transmitted in 1975
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Refines stated date of actress's appearance in TV series. I don't freak out about IMDB unless info is disputed, has BLP impact, etc. So this edit is fine in my book. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:55, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Tense fix, edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:56, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Edit changes "Today show" to "Today" (the official name of the show) in a section title, I guess ok as editorial judgment though leaving it alone might have been better. A few edits earlier[5] PC removes description of why the Sex Pistols had appeared on the show at such short notice. "Meh" to both edits, especially the earlier one, since (despite the article being about Grundy) it slightly de-contextualizes an unflattering description of the Sex Pistols' conduct in the incident. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:04, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Slight decrufting of article, edit is fine. Subject is a film actor born 1946. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:06, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Minor cleanup, edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:07, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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the claims about slaughtering/stunning of animals needs to be properly sourced
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Adds OR template to top of article, giving justification in the edit summary about a claim of context to a Qureshi comment about halal slaughtering. I hate those top-of-article templates and prefer {{cn}} or posting to the talk page, and am not sure OR was the right one to use, but flagging the claim is valid. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 22:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
George Galloway is of course the subject of most of the hoopla around Philip Cross's editing. Philip Cross at the time the sample was drawn (May 29 2018) had made 1799 edits to the Galloway article and 68 to the talk page, but by luck of the draw, the sample contains this one of the talk page edits and none of the article edits.
The edit is PC making a minor correction in one of his talk page comments, which is ok in and of itself (it doesn't change the meaning etc). The comment is in a discussion started by someone else regarding sourcing about Galloway's support/non-support of the "Palestinian cause" (the Israel-Palestine or I/P conflict is a huge perennial war zone on Wikipedia). PC's comment is about Galloway making inconsistent statements on the issue, which PC considered adding to the article but decided against since the article was already long. PC also writes "TFD, editor's are free to be speculative and convey queries on talk pages".
Talk pages are looser than articles, but BLP talk pages are less loose than other talk pages when contentious topics are concerned. So this edit's context does reinforce the picture of Philip Cross with an axe to grind against Galloway, or in the I/P area, or maybe both. 1799 edits to the Galloway article in that context is a lot. Therefore I'm glad PC has been asked to step away from the Galloway article. It's mostly a matter of volume than particular edits being egregious. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 23:35, 3 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Changes "Beeching came out as gay" to "Beeching came out as a lesbian". Not sure at all that lesbian was a more common term than "gay" for women in 2014. I don't think it's more common now. Might be an ENGVAR thing. Beeching herself used "gay" in the cited article (title: "Vicky Beeching, Christian rock star 'I'm gay. God loves me just the way I am'") but article subtitle says "Here, the singer and religious commentator discusses her sexuality for the first time and reflects on the political ramifications of coming out as a lesbian". Current (2018) version of article still says lesbian.
GLBT gurus would be better attuned than I am to how this sounds, but it seems a bit antiquated to me, at least here in the US in 2018. Without a clear sense I would have left it alone. IMHO this edit is at best "meh", maybe slightly negative. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 01:09, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Swaps order of two category links in the article. I have no idea why anyone ever does this, but it's a neutral, basically do-nothing edit. Article is about a film theorist born in 1932. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 01:11, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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uncited reference(s); since, as a term, social engineering is almost always pejorative, it is unlikely Robens would have used the term himself - a prominent critic needs to be cited if it is to be included
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Edit removes description of Robens (Labour politician, 1910-1999) as "A firm believer in social engineering". I have doubts about the edit summary since if describing Robles that way is a reasonable summary of what sources say about him, it doesn't matter much if Robles would have used it himself. Social engineering (in the sense mentioned) is a debatable philosophy: the term itself doesn't strike me as perjorative but PC might be better attuned than I am to it. There's a similar concept called nudge theory that's the topic of a book called "Nudge" (by Cass Sunstein). I think that book advocates nudging as a public policy strategy, so there are people out there openly embracing the concept (I can also sympathize with distaste for it).
I think I would have preferred {{cn}} to removing the description entirely. Does the removal bias the article rightward, the claim being made against PC? I don't think so. Leftward? Probably not either. Does it remove info that the reader would have been likely to value, assuming its correctness? Yes. Is the removal justifiable on the basis of sound factual/interpretive doubt? Maybe kind of, or possibly yes. (It's absolutely defendable on pure WP policy grounds, but that's not in question here: one can introduce horrible bias into Wikipedia by selective removals that are individually justifiable).
I'm going to rate this edit "meh" and note that it's always better (WP:PRESERVE) to mention any such removals on the article talk page when making them. But few people do that any more, so I can't get alarmed about it not being done here. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 01:43, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Expands on recognition that the film received. Good edit. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 01:45, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Changes description of guitarist from being "most famous for" playing guitar in the James Bond theme to "best known for". Edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 01:47, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Content-neutral phrasing cleanup. Edit is fine. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 01:48, 4 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
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/* Early recordings (1944–1954) */ absent from WP Thelonious Monk discography article
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/* Early life and career */ correction from IMDb, "Colonel Blimp" not "AMoL&D", Canadian sojourn needs better clarity & sourcing
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/* Labour Worker and International Socialism Group */ other citation of second Birchall article reinstated
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better hndis, at least 2 other Mary Fitzgerald's with whom she might be confused (1, an "Irish Times" journalist; 2, the editor of OpenDemocracy)
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/* Private Eye */ I disagree that it is current, so I have neutralised the time issue
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/* Resignation from The Daily Telegraph */ the article is from September 2015, Oborne has been much less sympathetic to Corbyn since
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/* Hillsborough claims */ Nuttall's blog entry from 2012 is irrelevant for the immediate issue
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/* BBC */ very worthwhile to mention this point (only the second, etc), but should still be sourced
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/* Early life */ multiple tracks, probably not the whole album (repackaged from 78s)
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Undid revision 813208100 by [[Special:Contributions/Mr.Exicornt|Mr.Exicornt]] ([[User talk:Mr.Exicornt|talk]]) as before
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/* Reporting of conflict */ modified citation, the title of "The First Post" article was clearly changed subsequent to the original link
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